More local control of education decisionmaking is a core element of today's education governance reform efforts. This research explores the federal, state, and local mechanisms by which public education is supported in California and examines how those resources are used by local school districts.......

Summary of a 2-week data-collection effort conducted in 1969 with the cooperation of the New York City Police Department.The objective of the experiment was to determine empirically the operating characteristics of the radio-dispatched patrol force and related personnel in the Communications Division — the percentage of time spent on various activities, the response time to calls for service......

Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .Net: Version 2.0by Microsoft CorporationPublisher: Microsoft Press 2003ISBN/ASIN: 0735618399ISBN-13: 9780735618398Number of pages: 384Description:Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET embraces existing work in the patterns community, contributes new patterns, and shows how to implement these patterns in .NET. Included in the guide are an in......

This essay, written in 1968, views U.S.involvement in terms of Vietnamese history. The past is examined through traditions and forces that have remained fairly constant.Much of that happening in Vietnam is a continuation of historical traditions and ancient conflicts, although these are now dressed in the language of rival ideologies and viewed in the perspective of global political struggles. Rec......

This report analyzes the attrition of Army Reserve and Army National Guard enlistees who have had no prior military service. It develops models of attrition that assign a probability of attrition to each recruit type. The models are based on analyses of historical attrition for the fiscal year 1980-1982 cohorts entering the Army National Guard and Army Reserve. The report focuses on separations to......